May Meet-up

1700--1800h: (Pre-event Workshop) R Markdown: The Basics
1800--1830h: Refreshments
1830--1900h: Andrew Patterson, Jumping Rivers
1915--2000h: Michael Reeve, Hiscox

Theo Roe, Data Scientist & Trainer @ Jumping Rivers
R Markdown: The Basics
In this session Theo will be delivering a hands on and interactive demonstration of R Markdown. To get the most out of this workshop it is recommended that you bring your own laptop. This session will make use of an online training environment provisioned by Jumping Rivers, and so you need not install any additional softwares to your laptop.

Andrew Patterson, Data Engineer @ Jumping Rivers
What happens now? - The day after deployment
Congratulations, you’ve made a lovely shiny app, configured it and deployed it in the cloud, job done.What happens now? How do you keep your shiny server, environment and data safe? This talk introduces you to possible fate of unassuming servers that can come at the hands of the malicious users, bots, nets and actors that are ever present on the modern internet, including:

• Vulnerabilities
• Attack vectors
• Data breach
• Vulnerable cloud configurations
• Configuration drift

Michael Reeve, Technical Business Analyst @ Hiscox
Building a Modern Data Platform & Databricks 101
Mike Reeve works for the Hiscox Insurance, where he has been a part of a number of data teams building data platforms to meet different business needs. He introduces some of the use cases for data platforms in the insurance industry, talks about the challenges of working in data in a large organisation as well as his experience of ‘DataOps’. Mike will also give an overview of Databricks one of the leading cloud data platforms and how it is helping build a digital customer journey at Hiscox.

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